Fence-post.



UNTTED STATES ATENT Fries.

FENCE- POST.

SPECIFEGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 677,396, dated July 2,1901.

Application filed April 14, 1900.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS WALTER BROWN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chattanooga, in the county of Hamilton and State ofTennessee, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inFence-Posts 5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,and exact description of the invention,such as will en able othersskilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in fence-posts, in which preferablylight T-iron is used. The bottom end may be fastened in a rock or sillin the ground. The top end has a slot or mortise, through which a curvedcross bar or arm passes, and is loosely riveted by a rivet passingthrough the middle of the curved arm and through the post. The slot ormortise in the post is made longer than the width of the curvedcross-arm, so the curved cross-arm can have a rocking motion. Thetapered wire-holding or wire-grasping hooks are punched out of the bodyof the post. By making the wire-grasping hooks tapering it simplifiesthe work of punching and makes it easier to bend the hooks over the wireafter the wire is placed in the hooks.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of the post. Fig. 2 is a frontView of the post, showing tapered hooks. Fig. 3 is a perspective view ofthe post with Wires attached.

Like figures of reference indicate corresponding parts in the difierentviews of the drawings.

Referring to Fig. 1, 5 is the post, preferably made of T-iron. It has amortise 8 Serial No. 12,815. (No model.)

punched out of the post near the top. The curved cross-arm 6 passesthrough this mortise and is loosely riveted to the post by the rivet 10.The mortise 8 is made longer than the width of the curved cross-arm 6,so the curved cross-arm 6, being loosely riveted to the post at 10, canhave a rocking motion. The curved cross-arm has notches 9 in each endfor a wire to rest in, and it has holes 11 11 for the wire to passthrough.

12 is a rock or sill for the post to rest in, or the post can be drivenin the ground.

Fig. 1 shows the wire 13 13 resting in the tapered hooks 7 7, and thetop end of the tapered hooks is shown bent inward and over the wire 1313, so as to hold it in place.

Fig. 2 shows the post with the tapered Wireholding or wire-graspinghooks as they appear before the wire 13 13 is placed in them.

Fig. 3 shows the post 5 with the wire fence 13 13 placed in the taperedWire-holding or wire-grasping hooks 7 7 before the hooks are bent overthe wire.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and wish tosecure by Letters Patent, is

A fence post having tapering hooks punched out of the post-body, and aslot near the top, in combination with a curved cross-arm pass ingthrough the slot and loosely riveted to the post.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig nature in presence of twowitnesses.

THOMAS W'ALTER BROWN.

Witnesses:

K. F. OHAMLEE, M. H. DOUGHTY.

